Annex DoS

From: Albert Nubdy (formatezat_private)
Date: Sat Jul 25 1998 - 17:10:21 PDT

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                                   Redes2 Security Team
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                                       .DO Underground
    
    
    PROBLEM
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      We have found serveral DoS attacks agaisnt Annex terminal servers
    from
    xylogics(bay).
    
    
    DETAILS
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      The first attack is about the ping program on the webserver. They
    designed the /ping program to take only 64 chars in the hostname part.
    They avoided from ppl to insert more than 64 by limiting it in the
    page on
    the webserver (/ping.html). But if you do a :
    http://annex.server.here/ping?query=a lot of aaaaaa's here(more than
    64)
    then annex server goes BOOM!.
    
      The second attack is with the land attack. Maybe when they tried the
    land attack on the annex servers they thought it didn't work. But it
    does... The problem is that when you do 1 land attack the CPU only
    rises a
    50 percent. Now if you do 2 land attacks consecutively then the annex
    server freezes because the CPU rises to 100%. I didn't make any
    programs
    for this because you only have to do a shell script that executes your
    land program at least two or three times.
    
    FIX
    ===
    
      We notified Bay a month ago. They have not responded yet.
    
    
    Credits:
    wh0is, speed1, lizard.
    
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    Albert Nubdy | formatezat_private |
    FormateZ@undernet                       |
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